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Lost stuffed toy monkey returned to owners
NY Post ^
| Aug. 8, 2011
| Rich Calder
Posted on 08/09/2011 10:27:45 AM PDT by stylecouncilor
It’s a monkey miracle — Bongo has been found!
An Upper East Side couple grieving over the loss of a stuffed toy monkey they’ve raised like a son the past decade went bananas with joy Saturday night after being reunited with their beloved Beanie Baby.
"I never gave up hope — I prayed, mediated, and now he’s with us again," said Bonni Marcus, 47, who along with boyfriend Jack Zinzi, 58, were devastated after losing Bongo on their way to a restaurant in Park Slope, Brooklyn, on August 1.
The 8-inch-tall doll was found Tuesday by Luis Barreto, 61, an unemployed Park Slope man, who discovered it atop a parking meter.
But unaware that it belonged to the couple and had gone missing — and finding it irresistibly cute — Barreto brought it back to his Sterling Place home, where he displayed it on a stereo speaker.
Bongo was only reunited with his "parents" after they returned to Flatbush Avenue by Sterling Place on Saturday to hang more fliers pleading for its return, and Zinzi approached Barreto and some other men hanging out on the street and told them about Bongo and the reward.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: beaniebaby; getalife; napl; toymonkey
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To: martin_fierro
I dunno about the G in that acronym...
To: Lurkin Lurch
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posted on
08/09/2011 2:04:39 PM PDT
by
Allegra
(Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
To: Slings and Arrows; null and void
“An Upper East Side couple grieving over the loss of a stuffed toy monkey they’ve raised like a son the past decade”
Hey, that sounds like a ‘couple’ the lived near nully who’d push a baby stroller holding a doll around the block...
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posted on
08/09/2011 2:19:29 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(You will never defeat Bok Choy!)
To: Darksheare
I suppose. But only in the sense that roommates live near.
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posted on
08/09/2011 2:26:50 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 929. When your only tools are a Hammer & Sickle, everything looks like a Capitalist...)
To: Hot Tabasco
♪ ♫ Don't cry for me Argentinaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ♫
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posted on
08/09/2011 2:52:55 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
("Don't just live your life, but witness it also.")
To: Hot Tabasco
♪ ♫ Don't cry for me Argentinaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ♫
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posted on
08/09/2011 2:53:07 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
("Don't just live your life, but witness it also.")
To: Slings and Arrows
An Upper East Side couple grieving over the loss of a stuffed toy monkey they’ve raised like a sonDemocrat the past decade... 10 years later and still no more able to take care of himself.
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posted on
08/09/2011 4:34:17 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(The liberal press applauded when the NY Times hacked Newt Gingrich's phone calls.)
To: a fool in paradise
But still eligible to vote!
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posted on
08/09/2011 4:35:12 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: longtermmemmory
how many fake stories has this paper run? Uh...
Every one that comes from the White House?
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posted on
08/09/2011 5:38:02 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
To: Tijeras_Slim
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posted on
08/09/2011 5:38:37 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
To: Slings and Arrows
An Upper East Side couple grieving over the loss of a stuffed toy monkey they’ve raised like a son the past decade...
Couldn't they just get a dog and anthropomorphize it like every other sane couple unwilling to breed does?
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posted on
08/09/2011 7:57:44 PM PDT
by
rmlew
("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
To: rmlew
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08/09/2011 8:30:29 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Elsie; Tijeras_Slim
The version I heard was “Great minds think alike...and fools seldom differ.”
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posted on
08/09/2011 8:33:17 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Thanks reaganaut.
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08/10/2011 3:08:34 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
08/10/2011 4:00:22 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
To: Elsie
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posted on
08/10/2011 4:03:42 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
To: stylecouncilor
BREAKINGS NEWS!!! This just in from Drudge (or someplace):
It has been revealed, thru our, as always, unnamed sources, that the 'monkey' in question had been secreted away for yet even more training by his Masters at Agency to Prevent Evil.
Due to excessive influence in our Government (pbui) CHUMP has gotten the upper hand and the American Way of Life hangs in the balance.
Owing to the extreme secrecy involved, all knowledge and any reporting of these events will be purged from the public recllrtn ^)()3m njiko....
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posted on
08/10/2011 4:14:36 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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